So, this is what it feels like?

[GreekStein]

because their shirts were almost soaked through with sweat.

[Josedinho]

It was in protest against Nigel De Jong who they thought should have received a red card so they all put red shirts on.

[boldie]

because their shirts were almost soaked through with sweat. blood

FYP

[Nakor]

Why did the Spanish change shirt colour after the final whistle?

Because they had pre made red shirts made with a gold star above the badge to symbolise 1 World Cup win.

How presumptuous

Cheers for the sensible answer.

[GreekStein]

Because it was getting late and they wanted to be visible to one another from considerable distances.

[boldie]

Why did the Spanish change shirt colour after the final whistle?

Because they had pre made red shirts made with a gold star above the badge to symbolise 1 World Cup win.

How presumptuous

Cheers for the sensible answer.

you can be pretty sure that every team getting to the final would have done that.

the dutch version is being burned as we speak.

[Josedinho]

because red is the international colour for stop World Cup tradition sees the winners wear red shirts to signal the end of the tournament

[Doobs]

Their tactics may not have been pretty but at least Holland were gracious in defeat.

Blah, blah Howard Webb is entirely at fault and "We cannot criticise ourselves. We have done everything we could."

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/07/12/WORLDCUP_Holland_Robben.html

[GreekStein]

Because it's national road safety week in spain and they wanted to highlight the fact that people should be cautious at traffic lights. the shirt represented a red light.

[StuartHopkin]

They thought they would confuse the Dutch into paying them €50 for 15 minutes

[GreekStein]

They all got suddenly really homesick and put on their home kit to convince themselves they were not in Africa, but instead back in Espana.

[Josedinho]

It was a tribute to Mick Hucknall and his band Simply Red as it was their music that was played in the Spanish dressing room before every world cup game.

[The Baron]

In the first half we were piss poor and, indeed, seemed to be mainly concerned with kicking lumps out of the Spanish. De Jong obv should already have been sent off in the first half. Funnily enough, I think if Webb had sent De Jong off in the first half it would have been a much better game. Maybe not for the result as Spain could easily have put several past us then but at least the random kicking would have stopped.

Second half I thought we did OK, we just didn't take our chances. Mathysen missing his free header and Robben not doing better when through on goal cost us.
Puyol obv should have been sent off as well but Robben gave Webb an excuse not to send him off by staying on his feet..he goes down there and Spain are down to ten men.
V Persie hasn't done a decent thing this WC and V Marwijk should have taken a leaf out of the Spanish book and left him out for Huntelaar....or at least substituted him at some stage.

Webb made his customary 3 or 4 mistakes in the match and towards the end he definitely started to show he was tired as his decision making skills also went out the window.
But in the end Spain deserved to win as our defending (VD Vaart, WTF??? and Braafheid on the pitch???) wasn't good enough.

Agree with all of this. I dont even think Webb is the best ref in this country.

[Hairydude]

I'm sorry but I had to chuckle at Braafheid playing in a world cup final; he couldnt even cope with players from Aberdeen and Falkirk on his short trip up here never mind inesta et al

[thetank]

I'm sorry but I had to chuckle at Braafheid playing in a world cup final; he couldnt even cope with players from Aberdeen and Falkirk on his short trip up here never mind inesta et al

Moving up to where they respect his raises.

Dons and Bairns kept calling with junk and hitting flops.